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And yet somehow it's better to say transformer models and not AI?

by safog 3y ago

jkestner 3y ago
Sir, this is a developer conference.
- tedmiston 3y ago
  The rest of the conference, sure. But the keynote has always been designed for a mainstream audience.
  - copperx 3y ago
    That wouldn't make sense. "Let's have a conference strictly for developers, but let's speak to a completely different audience in the keynote."
    - DonaldPShimoda 3y ago
      That is actually how it goes, though. The WWDC opening keynote is the typical Apple computer user's best look at what's coming up. It's not not technical, but it's very much deliberately made to be approachable to non-developers. Whether you agree with this choice or not, it's the way things have been for at least as long as I've been watching (which is over a decade).
    - tedmiston 3y ago
      Think of it by analogy as the keynote for the conference is like the back cover summary of a book. Despite technically being part of a developer conference, the intro keynote has always functioned more like a consumer-focused annual hardware and software update for Apple device users. Hence things like the ever-present use of things like impressive-sounding "marketing benchmarks" that wouldn't pass as up to snuff on slides in a room of developers. And also the very high level of abstraction so that non-technical users can understand the major updates — that's not exactly a trait one would use to describe a developer conference.
      - tedmiston 3y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenote#%22One_more_thing...%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenote#%22One_more_thing...... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_Inc._media_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_Inc._media_event... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Developers_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Developers_Conferenc...
DonaldPShimoda 3y ago
"AI" is a technically meaningless term. In contrast, a transformer model is a very specific technical thing.

And yet somehow it's better to say transformer models and not AI?

by safog 3y ago

And yet somehow it's better to say transformer models and not AI?

jkestner 3y ago

Sir, this is a developer conference.

tedmiston 3y ago
The rest of the conference, sure. But the keynote has always been designed for a mainstream audience.
- copperx 3y ago
  That wouldn't make sense. "Let's have a conference strictly for developers, but let's speak to a completely different audience in the keynote."
  - DonaldPShimoda 3y ago
    That is actually how it goes, though. The WWDC opening keynote is the typical Apple computer user's best look at what's coming up. It's not not technical, but it's very much deliberately made to be approachable to non-developers. Whether you agree with this choice or not, it's the way things have been for at least as long as I've been watching (which is over a decade).
  - tedmiston 3y ago
    Think of it by analogy as the keynote for the conference is like the back cover summary of a book. Despite technically being part of a developer conference, the intro keynote has always functioned more like a consumer-focused annual hardware and software update for Apple device users. Hence things like the ever-present use of things like impressive-sounding "marketing benchmarks" that wouldn't pass as up to snuff on slides in a room of developers. And also the very high level of abstraction so that non-technical users can understand the major updates — that's not exactly a trait one would use to describe a developer conference.
    - tedmiston 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenote#%22One_more_thing...%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenote#%22One_more_thing...... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_Inc._media_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_Inc._media_event... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Developers_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Developers_Conferenc...

DonaldPShimoda 3y ago

"AI" is a technically meaningless term. In contrast, a transformer model is a very specific technical thing.